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The Critic

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Dec 13, 2025
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Sep 27, 2025
Emma’s passing admission that she still feels love for the woman who created her most famous role was enough to get her attacked by the #BeKind lot. So what’s the point in complying? asks Seán Atkinson
The gender fanatics are never satisfied | Seán Atkinson | The Critic Magazine
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Sep 6, 2025
When Graham Linehan was being persecuted by the police, courts and trans activists, who looked away the hardest? As @Glinner details here, the blindest eye was Private Eye’s.
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Why did the Eye look away? | Graham Linehan | The Critic Magazine
Surely a title known for investigative journalism would be concerned by a series of trans scandals.
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Nov 2, 2020
"I had the easiest 3 months of NHS practice in my life from March to June 2020" - The Covid Physician, an "an unheroic NHS doctor", reveals their timeline of the coronavirus pandemic @tcp_dr
The Covid Physician’s true coronavirus timeline | The Covid Physician | The Critic Magazine
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May 31, 2022
Instead of engaging in good faith, Stella Creasy resorts to ad hominem attacks. @runthinkwrite suggests she do some reading before diving into the debate over the definition of “female”
Language, truth and logic | Jon Pike | The Critic Magazine
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Jul 9, 2025
Drag queens are just a way to ridicule females while staying on the right side of the tracks, writes @jo_bartosch
Why are PR firms endlessly titillated by drag? | Josephine Bartosch | The Critic Magazine
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Jan 28, 2022
“A teacher and mother-of-three has been questioned under caution by Merseyside Police for sending a letter to Girlguiding UK raising safeguarding concerns.” — Kim Thomas interviews a woman hounded by the police for “misgendering” a gun-toting Girl Guide
Misguided or misgendered? | Kim Thomas | The Critic Magazine
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Sep 24, 2025
.@HJoyceGender takes us inside the Kafkaesque world of guilt without proof
How I was secretly logged as a criminal | The Critic Magazine
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Oct 25, 2022
The trans movement is full of men degrading women and pretending that’s not what they’re doing. @glosswitch calls out their bog-standard sexism with a modern coat of paint
A dick move | Victoria Smith | The Critic Magazine
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Dec 31, 2019
Failure to comply with my New Year’s resolutions will be considered a hate crime, says @TitaniaMcGrath
Happy New Year, bigots | Titania McGrath | The Critic Magazine
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Jun 17, 2021
‘If you seek to persuade us that “being kind” is more important than “having rights”, then you will need to do better than this’ — @SVPhillimore criticises the Fawcett Society for not defending women’s sex-based rights
Cowardice calls to cowardice | Sarah Phillimore | The Critic Magazine
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Feb 3, 2022
“Starmer should have acted instantly, denouncing the abuse and assuring Duffield of his support. He didn’t, maintaining a silence that is profoundly disappointing to feminists who have watched the bullying of Duffield” — @polblonde on Starmer's silence
Starmer’s silence | Joan Smith | The Critic Magazine
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Oct 27, 2023
Being quiet only helps the cancellers, argues @HJoyceGender. Playing nice has not worked
Playing nice hasn’t worked | Helen Joyce | The Critic Magazine
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Apr 15, 2023
The most important part of adulthood, writes @HJoyceGender, is understanding that not everything is about you
Hard lessons in life | Helen Joyce | The Critic Magazine
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